Alumni - Vahala Research Group

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2024 Ph.D.

NTT research, Inc.

2023 Ph.D.

Engineer,
Apple Inc.

2021 Ph.D. 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar

Postdoctoral Scholar, Standford Shanhui Fan Group

2021 Ph.D. 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar

Senior Engineer, Nexus Photonics

2021 SURF-the-WAVE Fellow

Graduate Student, Harvard Marko Loncar group

2021 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

2019 Ph.D. 2020 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Peking University

2019 Ph.D.

Senior Research Engineer, OEwaves Inc.

Myoung-Gyun Suh

2017 Ph.D. 2019 Postdoctoral Scholar

Senior Scientist, NTT Research, Inc.

2018 Surf Fellow

Graduate Student, MIT Ketterle group

2017 Ph.D. 2018 Postdocotral Researcher

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

2017 Ph.D. 2018 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Harvard

2018 Visiting PhD Student

Peking University

Dongyoon (James) Oh

2017 Ph.D.

Stealth

2017 Post Doctoral Scholar

Senior Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.

2016 Surf Fellow

Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley Alp Sipahigil Group

2015 Post Doctoral Scholar

Associate Professor, KAIST

2013 Ph.D.

President and Cofounder, hQphotonics Inc.

2013 Ph.D.

Director, Head of Asia Pacific Digital Value Creation, KKR & Co. Inc.

2011 Post Doctoral Scholar

CEO, founder, Beamlet

2009 Ph.D.

VP Product, Rigetti Computing

2009 joint PhD program visiting student

Professor, Nanjing University

2008 Post Doctoral Scholar

Associate Professor, University of Victoria

Mani Hossein-Zadeh

2008 Post Doctoral Scholar

Patent Scientist, Knobbe Martens

2007 Post Doctoral Scholar

Professor, Tel Aviv University

2006 Ph.D.

Ray Irani Chair of Engineering and Materials Science, Professor of Chem. Eng., Mat. Science, and EE, University of Southern California

2006 Ph.D. 2007 Postdocotral Researcher

Professor, KAIST

Hossein Rokhsari

2005 Ph.D.

Partner, Darcy Partners

2005 Ph.D.

Director of Engineering, SMP Engineering Inc

2005 Ph.D.

Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Tobias Kippenberg

2004 Ph.D. 2006 Postdoctoral Scholar

Full Professor of Physics, EPFL

2004 Ph.D.

TLM - Lidar Hardware, Aurora

Mark Brongersma

2001 Post Doctoral Scholar

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford

Ashish Bhardwaj

2001 Ph.D.

Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager - III-V Development, Aurora

2002 Post Doctoral Scholar

John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Caltech; Head of Quantum Hardware, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Per Olof Hedekvist

2000 Post Doctoral Scholar

Senior Scientist, Applied Metrology, RISE Research Institute of Sweden

2001 Ph.D.

Principal Software and Systems Engineer, Abbott

1998 Ph.D.

Associate Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Roberto Paiella

1998 Ph.D.

Professor, Boston University

1998 Ph.D.

Vice-President of R&D, Glenair

1997 Ph.D.

Research Director, Corning Research and Development Corporation

1997 Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

1996 Ph.D.

Engineering Dev Director, Lumentum

1995 Ph.D.

CEO, HC Semitek Corporation

1994 Ph.D.

Professor, Seoul National University

1993 Ph.D.
Deputy Program Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Winston Saunders

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

Research Manager, Microsoft

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

VP, Optical Architecture, Infinera

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

Co-founder, Lumisyn LLC

1992 Ph.D.

Founder, Peter Sercel Research, LLC

Michael Newkirk

1991 Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, EMCORE Corporation

1990 Ph.D.

Principal Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory

1990 Ph.D.

CEO, Holo, Inc.